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Collapsing Liberalism's Public/Private Divide: Voldemort's War On The Family, Danaya C. Wright
Collapsing Liberalism's Public/Private Divide: Voldemort's War On The Family, Danaya C. Wright
UF Law Faculty Publications
As a legal scholar setting out to explore themes of law in Harry Potter, I am acutely aware of the absence of family law conflicts in these different family structures and relationships. Rowling's obvious fascination with different family structures and her relatively strong sense of an isolated, private sphere that is free of state intervention seems in keeping with traditional liberal values of the public/private divide. Yet her rejection of state interference in the private sphere of the family does not correspond to an autonomous state that is focused on the public sphere. Where liberalism separates the private world of …
A Constitutionalist Perspective, Elizabeth Dale
A Constitutionalist Perspective, Elizabeth Dale
UF Law Faculty Publications
Intended as a sustained critique of modern communitarian thought written from a constitutionalist perspective, Beau Breslin'sCommunitarian Constitution is a handy primer on modern communitarian thought and a provoking consideration of the impact of communitarian thinking on contemporary politics.
The foundation for Breslin's fundamental argument--that constitutionalism provides a viable alternative to communitarianism, while liberalism cannot--is not laid as well as one might wish. There are other points where his logic ought to be more rigorously developed, most notably in his assessment of the role and power of the rule of law in a constitutionalist system. He rests his reliance on …
Foreword: Toward A Multicultural Theory Of Property Rights, Danaya C. Wright
Foreword: Toward A Multicultural Theory Of Property Rights, Danaya C. Wright
UF Law Faculty Publications
This panel, sponsored by the Minority group and Property Sections of the AALS for the January, 2000 annual meeting, was composed of an exciting group of scholars critically analyzing traditional theories of property and current distribution of resources. The panel, entitled "Reviewing the Legacy of Liberalism: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- Linking Property to Rights," challenged traditional notions of property rights, from a discussion of the gender implications of African property law, to a critique of traditional analyses of Johnson v. M'Intosh, to property as heteronormative. Because the articles provide so much rich and thought-provoking material, …
Cultural Critique And Legal Change, Charles W. Collier
Cultural Critique And Legal Change, Charles W. Collier
UF Law Faculty Publications
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